I’M LEAVING NOW

Cinema Detroit4126 Third StreetDetroit, MI, 48201

DIR Lindsey Cordero, Armando Croda | US | 2018 | 75 MIN

Felipe is an undocumented Mexican immigrant at a crossroads: after 16 years in Brooklyn and sending the bulk of his earnings to his wife and children in Mexico, he's decided to return home to the family he hasn't seen in almost two decades. But when he informs them of his plans, he discovers that they've squandered the money, are deeply in debt and don’t want him to return. Shot over two years, this is a searing and intimate portrait of one undocumented worker on the margins. In allowing the rhythms, emotions, and sounds of Felipe’s day-to-day life to drive the story, Cordero and Croda open an impressionistic, cinematic window into one of the most pressing political issues of our time, without sentimentalizing or trivializing its subject. In English and Spanish with English subtitles. NOT RATED